

Throughout the video, a series of videos and transitions are shown on LG cell phones that show the video both through them and how Ritter and his girlfriend broke up. It revolves around a house party with the band where lead singer and bassist Tyson Ritter encounters his ex-girlfriend (played by Julianna Guill) with a new boyfriend (played by Landon Ashworth). It primarily features the band performing the song on the set of their I Wanna Rock Tour stage set-up with neon lights, while scenes of a couple listening to music and sitting in a car are overlapped through the video, leading to them performing sexual intercourse.Ī second version, directed by Paul Hunter, was released October 13, 2009. In the United States, "I Wanna" charted at #32 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 and #23 on the Adult Top 40 charts respectively in late August 2009, it eventually reached #95 on the Hot 100 the following month.Ī music video for "I Wanna" was directed by Rich Lee and was shot in June 2009 and was released a month later in mid-July. It also charted in the country's year-end Top 100 Singles at #88. In Australia, the song became the All-American Rejects' second-highest charting single in that territory - following " Gives You Hell" - peaking at #15. Worldwide, "I Wanna" achieved moderate success, peaking at #42 and #45 in Austria and Germany respectively and #84 in the United Kingdom. It feels as though AAR is tired with this same old song-and-dance routine." Sputnikmusic were more negative, stating "'I Wanna' has enough cringe-inducing lyrics to fill a Mariah Carey song and Ritter’s delivery is bored, at best. The Impressive Inklings praised the song as an album opener and praised Ritter's vocal work as "impressive", while Marshall Lately stated that the track is "a playful opener on the junior effort" and "is repetitive without being annoying, which is seldom found in pop ditties, shows lyrically that they know where they came from, but also where they’re going." The song received mixed reviews from music critics. you're locked away in this hole and all you wanna do is touch somebody." Reception Critical reception And when all you see is planes, buses, cars, insides of venues, dressing rooms and hotels. Two years straight on the road, barely going home. In an interview with Take 40 Australia, Wheeler said "Tyson came up with the idea on the road while we were touring Move Along. "I Wanna" was written by Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter in Florida, United States and was one of the first songs to be written and recorded for When the World Comes Down within a six-month time period both in the studio and the band's tour bus and was refined by Ritter numerous times before recording began. The All-American Rejects Soundcheck Vol." I Wanna" is a song by American rock band the All-American Rejects, released as the third and final single from their third studio album When the World Comes Down on June 8, 2009.Gives You Hell: The Remixes (EP) (2009).

The All-American Rejects Soundcheck Vol.So far as of 2011, The All-American Rejects have made 3 studio albums and 8 EPs:

The name All-American Reject was made from either a mix of two suggestions, "The Rejects" and "The All Americans" or the other being that it came from a song "Reject" by Green Day and had the chorus, "your reject all-american".īand members Current The All-American Rejects first became a band in 1999 when band member Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler were in high school. The All-American Rejects have four members in the band the current band members are Tyson Ritter, Nick Wheeler, Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor. The All-American Rejects are an American alternative rock band from Stillwater, Oklahoma.
